Oxychilus draparnaudi

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Oxychilus draparnaudi


Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Oxychilidae
Genus:	Oxychilus
Species:	O. draparnaudi
Binomial name
*Oxychilus draparnaudi* (Beck, 1837)

Oxychilus draparnaudi, or Draparnaud's glass snail,^[1] is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.^[2]

Description

Oxychilus draparnaudi is large for a zonitid glass snail, also called the dark-bodied glass snail with a shell of about 14 mm in maximum dimension. The shell is glossy and is a translucent yellowish-brown and gold in color, somewhat whiter underneath.^[3]

The visible soft parts of the animal are a very unusual strong dark blue, mixed with grey.^[3]

Shell of an Adult specimen (Ø 1,3 cm)
Shell of a Juvenile specimen (Ø 4 mm)

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

and other areas

Synonyms

Synonyms include Oxychilus drapanaldi, Oxychilus lucidum, Helix lucida, Helix nitida, Helicella draparnaldi, and Polita draparnaldi.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Neiber, M.T. (2017). "Oxychilus draparnaudi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. IUCN: e.T171547A1327952. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T171547A1327952.en.
^ Spencer, H. G.; Marshall, B. A.; Willan, R. C. (2009). "Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca". In Gordon, Dennis P. (ed.). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. pp. 196–219. ISBN 9781877257728. OCLC 340800193.
^ ^a ^b Janus H. (1965) The young specialist look at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London.
^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
^ Virginia Land Snails, in carnegiemnh.org.

External links

Media related to Oxychilus draparnaudi at Wikimedia Commons
Oxychilus draparnaudi at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images

Taxon identifiers

Oxychilus draparnaudi

Wikidata: Q1548204
AFD: Oxychilus_draparnaudi
BioLib: 2847
BOLD: 462147
CoL: 6TFZS
EoL: 452654
EPPO: OXYHDR
Fauna Europaea: 430155
Fauna Europaea (new): 1fda79f2-2980-4c7d-a1b3-03e18f3862b7
GBIF: 5190767
GISD: 1931
iNaturalist: 226720
IRMNG: 10940527
ITIS: 77197
IUCN: 171547
NatureServe: 2.120894
NCBI: 254840
NZOR: c3186381-5270-4ca5-8709-7f28f67a0ba9
Open Tree of Life: 238257
SeaLifeBase: 6757
WoRMS: 819978

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